Tech entrepreneur focused on Blockchain. I've run various well funded ventures in Blockchain and crypto - a Blockchain based social network with over 10,000 users, a Recognized as one of the top 100 Blockchain influencers in Asia by Lattice80. Distinguished Alumni award from VIT University. Recognized as a blockchain expert and trainer by Dubai Municipality. Recipient of the Distinguished Speaker Award at the International Gold Convention; Panelist at the International Spices Conference. I've qualified for the Ironman world championships.

Alex Ryvkin founded Rho Protocol, the first institutional-grade market for crypto interest rates, in 2022. Before founding Rho, Alex was crypto custodian Copper's Chief Product Officer, and spent the decade prior in capital markets and fintech as a sales trader, derivatives structurer and startup CEO. He has an MBA from London Business School.

Ana is the CEO and co-founder of Fideum Group. Her journey started in the complex world of European Union law enforcement agencies, giving her an inside perspective on regulatory systems. She then pivoted to the private sector, where she spearheaded blockchain and AI projects as COO for a Canadian public company. A pivotal moment for her was being part of the core team of AAVE (ETHLend), now the largest decentralized lending marketplace, immersing her in blockchain’s potential. Now, with Fideum, she's merging her regulatory knowledge and passion for technology to redefine the fintech landscape and help financial institutions interact with digital assets.

Chris, the co-founder and CEO of SignalPlus, has a rich background in macro trading from Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. His expertise spans FX, FX Options, and interest rate products. Fueled by his entrepreneurial spirit, Chris has made significant strides in the fintech, SaaS, and web2 industries.

Davide is the chief commercial officer of Neon EVM. He is a crypto entrepreneur and has been deeply involved in blockchain and cryptocurrencies since late 2013.

Focus areas: DeFi, Web3, Staking (PoS), DAO Governance.
Networks: Ethereum, Bitcoin, Polygon, Polkadot, Kusama, Cosmos.
Activities: business development, product strategy, sales, partnerships, tokenomics.

Shaping the future of decentralized finance with Idle Finance, the oldest yield aggregation and optimization protocol - backed by Consensys, Gumi Cryptos, Dialectic, Long Hash, and GreenfieldOne. Combining the DeFi activities with the block production role to build a full-spectrum crypto experience.

Featured in the Forbes Italia 100 Under30 list, Nasdaq, Cointelegraph, Bitcoin Magazine.

Eric van Miltenburg is Senior Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Ripple. Over his 8+ year tenure at the company, Eric has led high-performing teams across a range of disciplines including corporate strategy, global business operations, strategic partnerships, business development and marketing.    

Eric has 25+ years of business leadership. Prior to joining Ripple, Eric held senior positions with high-growth start-ups and Fortune 500 companies including Adobe, Yahoo!, Hightail, RedSwoosh, Work.com and Excite@Home.com. He is known for his extensive experience in solving complex business problems and executing strategies that help technology companies systematically accelerate growth.  

Hagen Rooke has extensive experience advising global financial institutions and corporates on regulatory matters across their full lifecycle, including financial services licensing, conduct of business, regulatory change projects, and contentious matters relating to regulatory investigations and enforcement.  His clients include digital asset exchanges, Web3 projects, payment services firms, capital markets intermediaries, banks, fund managers, exchanges, proprietary trading houses and commodity groups.  With an extensive track record of engaging with regulators such as MAS, SFC, and FCA, and with an international client base, Hagen has institutional and multijurisdictional experience to provide strategic advice to clients on critical business and risk-management decisions.   

Hassan is the Country Director of Coinbase Singapore. He previously held dual positions at GoTo Group as CEO of Coins.ph, the leading crypto brokerage in the Philippines; as well as SVP Strategy for Gopay, Indonesia's largest eWallet service. Hassan's professional experience extends to New York, where he oversaw the launch of eToro’s regulated crypto trading platform in the United States as Director of Finance & Operations. Additionally, he was Head of Business Operations at Venmo and Vice President of Strategy at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management.

Jacob Phillips is the Co-Founder and head of strategy at Lombard. He is responsible for driving strategic vision and overseeing operational execution.  Prior to founding Lombard, Jacob served as the COO at a DeFi derivatives protocol, Perennial, where he was the first hire and played a crucial role in shaping the company's direction and growth.

Jeremy Tan is a MtGox hack victim and a Bitcoin maxi. He's also Singapore's best-performing independent candidate at the country's general elections in 53 years.

Ecosystem lead, mETH protocol

Kathy Zhu has been involved with the crypto industry from both inside and out, from her days as a journalist to her current role as APAC lead at Mezo, an EVM blockchain-based platform that allows users to stake BTC assets to secure itself and serve as Bitcoin's economic layer. Joining Binance when it was a small startup of fewer than 200 people, she worked in global marketing and later transitioned to leading growth and operations for Binance’s P2P trading platform. After leaving Binance in 2021, she moved into venture investing, with a focus on Bitcoin and its evolving ecosystem, particularly through Ordinals and BRC-20 tokens.

Lisa is the founder and managing director at Economics Design, a research focused consultancy for digital ecosystems.

In the research space, she contributes to research work in various fields like math, governance policy and economics, while having the practitioner exposure through designing token economic models for projects.

She was one of the first few to research and educate on token economics, starting in 2018 in London. Since then, she has a weekly podcast on the economics of token ecosystems, online courses, and has educated regulators, government officials, students and organisations in London, Singapore, Seoul, Geneva and Columbia University.

Nic co-founded Oh in early 2022 with Felix. Together, they also co-founded a successful digital marketing and PR agency, which generated six-figure annual profits. Prior to the success of his own agency, he worked at a top PR agency consulting some of the world’s biggest brands including Huawei and Burger King. Nic leads the vision and general direction of the business.

Nikhil Joshi is the COO of EMURGO with a remit to increase its commercial adoption through build and investment. He oversees the build side of EMURGO’s Fintech, Media and Education products, as well as its incubation arm. 


Prior to EMURGO, Nikhil was the COO of a Singaporean startup focused on solving trade and supply chain woes using Hyperledger Fabric and Corda. He successfully fundraised $7m for a Series A round during Covid. Before that, Nikhil spent 15 years with Barclays in London and Singapore, improving capital efficiency for New York and London structured credit desks, as well as lobbying global regulators on Basel I-IV. Latterly, he was involved in strategic and tactical initiatives using revenue, cost, funding, capital and liquidity levers to improve Return on Equity for Barclays' Asian business. He also worked extensively with Senior Relationship Management and IBD parts of the business on client strategy and cross-selling.

Samar heads up the Talos business in APAC, delivering institutional-grade digital asset trading systems to customers on the buy-side and sell-side. Over his 20-year career, Sen has worked in a variety of product, strategy, and technology leadership roles at capital markets firms across the industry. Prior to joining Talos, he served as the Global Head of Digital Products for Securities Services at Deutsche Bank, where he co-led the bank’s digital asset strategy and product delivery. In addition, he has held senior Asia-based roles at BNP Paribas, Barclays, and TradeHero after starting his career at Goldman Sachs in New York. Sen holds a degree in Computer Science from Northwestern University and an MBA from INSEAD.

Sota Watanabe is CEO of Startale Group, the company that aims "Web3 For Billions" by building products like Astar, Soneium with Sony Group, and Startale Cloud. In addition to that, he is one of the directors of Japan Blockchain Assosiation. He previously selected Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia and Japan in 2022 and 100 People of Japan in 2023 by Newsweeks.

Valentin Fournier is a digital asset analyst at Blockhead Research Network (BRN).

Vinay Mohan is a management consultant and technology entrepreneur based in Vancouver, Canada. With over twenty years of experience, he has delivered numerous strategic transformation projects and established pioneering ventures in fintech, CBDCs, web3, enterprise blockchain, and the wider digital asset ecosystem.
Vinay’s areas of specialization include financial services, energy, and government sectors with deep learnings gained in both emerging markets as well as advanced economies. He takes a keen interest in bridging the usability gaps in web3 and making blockchain-based technologies available to web2 audiences.